Right you are. Brennan states the obvious. Of course ISIS and other religious loonies, some American non-Islamic loonies, will attempt to attack Americans using guerrilla tactics. What other tactics are available to a smaller, less technically capable, underfunded opponent? We all wish there would be no real threat of attacks, but does anyone believe that there aren't threats? Well, OK, this information may be news to Mickey and a few others.
Brennan is no doubt correct but there's no revelation in what he has said.
It needs to be put in perspective though.
The real damage being done is psychological. 40 or 50 dead is HORRIFIC, it's unforgivable, it's outrageous and it's a tragedy for the loved ones of the innocents.
But chalk it up and compare it to street gang violence, and it ranks about "medium".
What I am saying is, in terms of sheer numbers, the best ISIS can hope for is a really bad week when the Crips and Bloods used to crank it up in the 80's in L.A.
In the 80's we had gang shootouts in the very neighborhood I live in right now where the tally could hit twenty, thirty or even forty.
I was making a living shooting video of it for the local news damn near every night, in between car crashes and structure fires.
The real damage being done is the fact that it rankles the American mind that a group of illiterate dingleberries and their local sympathizers and wannabes can reach out and touch us all the way over here in Murrica. We don't expect it, we're not used to it, we thought we beat them already, we thought Jeebus would protect us, we thought spending trillions of dollars and exploding depleted uranium and boiling their infrastructure into molten tar would teach them a lesson...
...and none of the above worked.
And the net result of all of this is, people who have absolutely no real perspective about violence, are putting THEIR ignorant perspective on it and expecting everyone to go all gung ho and spend more trillions, for the same result, because to not do so implies that we're weak little ******s or worse yet, effeminate libruls.
Because ALL of that worked so goddam well the first time we tried it, right?